The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal

You’ll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and begin building a Drupal site. We’ve taught new Drupal users from the White House to Harvard and the New York Transit Commission to the small business owner. We’ll help it make sense.

Learning Objectives

Part 1: Introduction to Drupal: What? Who? When? Why?

Part 2: Installing Drupal

Part 3: Navigating the Drupal interface

Part 4: Understanding Drupal content

Part 5: Managing Drupal content using content types

Part 6: Adding data fields to Drupal content

Part 7: Choosing and configuring modules

Part 8: Choosing and configuring themes

Part 9: Configuring and working with Drupal user permissions

Prerequisites

None.

Attendees will need a laptop with Acquia’s Dev Desktop installed, if they wish to follow along with the tasks.

Instructor

Rod Martin holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations.

Rod's extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Moodle and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorbike pretty much everywhere he can.

About the author

Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.